Franz Schubert

Am Klavier - Schubert

> Ascending difficulty from easy to medium
> Also easy pieces of cheerful-melancholic depth
> For returning pianists and their teachers
> Editor and fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher

Of the twelve composers in our 'At the Piano' series, Franz Schubert was certainly the least at home on the piano, but what masterpieces he gave us for the instrument! There is hardly a pianist who is not immediately captivated by the cheerful, melancholy tone of Schubert's Impromptus and Moments musicaux.

Surprising twists and turns lend great depth to even the simple pieces Schubert wrote at the beginning of our volume. Even his dances are not mere light music: the ostensibly sweet waltzes and ländler are always pervaded by a wistful tone, from which the foreboding of death of the seriously ill Schubert seems to resound through.